Intelligence

A company that owns several hundred brand names has been issued the trademark for People Express and is hoping a low-cost carrier startup will see value in the former carrier’s moniker, given its strong association with deeply discounted travel even though the Newark-based airline flamed out after ground-breaking success in the 1980s. The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office issued a notice of allowance May 17 to New Rochelle, N.Y.-based 200 Kelsey Associates, which has six months to file a statement of use or extension request....More

Regulatory/Legislative

The U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) is moving back to square one in deciding how to beef up and solidify the data that U.S. and foreign carriers are required to submit to the government about their route-specific and flight segment-specific traffic....More

MRO

ST Aerospace’s operation spans Asia-Pacific, the Americas and Europe, but it would like to add to that list.
In terms of airframe capabilities, President Chang Cheow Teck says, “We are always on the lookout for opportunities and are prepared to invest in markets that we believe can complement” the MRO’s operation. “To this end, an airframe facility in Europe or the MENA region will certainly complement the ST Aerospace global footprint,” he says....More

As part of the company’s restructuring initiative to beef-up its engineering function, Boeing has promoted the chief project engineers of the 737, 747, 777 and KC-45 tanker programs to the role of VP for the programs they support....More

Airlines

United Continental collected more ancillary revenue in 2010 than any other carrier that publicly reports or presents the figures, raking in cash from items such as co-branded credit cards, checked bag fees, hotel bookings and other products and services, a new report shows....More

A crew verification program launched by ARINC and tested since June 2008 at three U.S. airports is facing competition from a joint effort by the Air Transport Association (ATA) and the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA).
Cost of ARINC’s CrewPass screening program and who should pay for the service are at issue....More

Intelligence

A company that owns several hundred brand names has been issued the trademark for People Express and is hoping a low-cost carrier startup will see value in the former carrier’s moniker, given its strong association with deeply discounted travel even though the Newark-based airline flamed out after ground-breaking success in the 1980s. The U.S. Patent & Trademark Office issued a notice of allowance May 17 to New Rochelle, N.Y.-based 200 Kelsey Associates, which has six months to file a statement of use or extension request....More

Labor

Aer Lingus says a potential pilot strike planned next week would have a “significant adverse effect on profitability” as it would come in the middle of the busy summer travel season.
Its pilots—organized in the Irish Airline Pilots Association (IALPA) branch of the IMPACT trade union—voted in favor of striking in the ongoing dispute over rosters. The union told Aer Lingus that pilots based in Cork and at its main base in Dublin will not work on free days and annual leave days and that they will report for duty one hour late....More

The contentious relationship between US Airways and its pilots has prompted the US Airline Pilots Association to lodge a complaint with the U.S. District Court Southern District of New York claiming the airline is violating its bargaining responsibilities under the Railway Labor Act, which governs airline employee negotiations. The main thrust of the complaint accuses the airline of delaying talks for a new contract....More

Latin America

Azul Linhas Aereas Brasileiras is seeking authority to serve Aeroporto de Paulo Afonso in Bahia, from its base at Viracopos-Campinas International Airport in Sao Paulo. The service, if approved, would start Aug. 15 and operate through Salvador Airport in Bahia on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays, says the Embraer E-Jet operator....More

Major Airlines

Cash-strapped Air India is grappling with what appears to be an inability to pay for fuel and airport charges at a time when it is trying to pay several debts, coupled with a huge revenue loss due to a recent pilots strike. But India’s government has stepped in to broker a deal to pay the bills....More

MRO

ST Aerospace’s operation spans Asia-Pacific, the Americas and Europe, but it would like to add to that list.
In terms of airframe capabilities, President Chang Cheow Teck says, “We are always on the lookout for opportunities and are prepared to invest in markets that we believe can complement” the MRO’s operation. “To this end, an airframe facility in Europe or the MENA region will certainly complement the ST Aerospace global footprint,” he says....More

Regional Airlines

Air Canada will proceed with the next phase of rebranding its feeder network by renaming all Jazz services Air Canada Express, effective today.
The change comes one month after Air Canada introduced the new brand on its new Bombardier Q400 services between Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport and Montreal’s Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport operated by Skyservice Business Aviation (Aviation Daily, April 28)....More

Regulatory/Legislative

The U.S. Transportation Department (DOT) is moving back to square one in deciding how to beef up and solidify the data that U.S. and foreign carriers are required to submit to the government about their route-specific and flight segment-specific traffic....More

The general feeling among many of China’s naval neighbors and in U.S. military circles is that China has been turning into a bit of a bully in (re)staking territorial claims in the seas off its coasts....More

Former Editor-in-Chief Dave North wrote pilot reports on more than 120 aircraft during his career at Aviation Week. His visits to Embraer began in 1978, long before the Brazilian company’s privatization and emergence as a powerhouse in regional jets. Here, he recalls his Embraer experiences, culminating in a test flight of the E170....More